wow. That must be making it really, really hard on those people who pay for a second (or third...) account with plex.

Considering some the guys I met at EVE Vegas were running up to 18 accounts, yah this might hurt a bit.Part of the problem too is CC is charging 20 plex starting bid to get into the 10k cash award PvP tourney.

I have been keeping my account active with PLEX while I train long skills for the past few months. I only log in to adjust some market orders every once in a while or to say hi to a few people. Now that PLEX are so expensive, I am not even going to bother re-subbing once this month runs out. The last one I bought was like 520 mil I think and I was pretty hesitant about that one.

Given that buying plex just moves money from one player to another, I don't know how much of a sink it is.

At FanFest this year, they said that permabanned accounts had 10K plex. If they slowly let those onto the market at something like 600m each, that would be 6t isk out of the economy (assuming that any isk they got from the seeded plex was removed from the game).

Considering CCP has their own war on RMT/Botting (showed a a great video of blowing up SOV structures of those cheating), CCP could be using PLEX's to remove some of the cash. But, reality is I doubt its removing alot of the cash from the game. Many players are over the "trillion" mark in their bank account, meaning ISK is no object to them.

Items purchased from factional warfare stores and then resold on the market to other pilots are really isk sinks rather than faucets. The initial purchase requires LPs and isk, and then the isk made after that is coming directly from another pilot's wallet. Incursions, missions, belt NPC bounties - those are the faucets that introduce isk from nowhere into the economy.

Does anyone know when the winter expansion comes out and what will be in it?I think they are supposed to finish the rest of the ship skin redesigns and add in four new destroyers. (which I have issue with)

It was also talked about before Inferno that they were thinking of breaking the destroyer and battlecruiser skills up into racial skills in the winter expansion, but I have no idea if that's coming to light.

BTW, the problem I have with the destroyers is that they don't match the racial categories very well. I will say that they have made an attempt to stop making the Caldari ships completely ugly. The Naga and the Manticore, as two of the newer Caldari designed ships (the Manticore is not new, just its design), look pretty good. But my problem is how they gave the Amarr destroyer more drone space and power than the Gallente destroyer. In fact, the Gallente destroyer doesn't look very competitive with the other destroyers. The Amarr destroyer also doesn't look like it has much for serious armor or firepower, relying on drones. That's not the typical Amarr doctrine.

Maybe they are trying to make a niche ship among the Amarr fleet, a one off thing. It just seems... wrong, to me.

The Amarr frigate is supposed to be about ewar and throwing drones at a target, while the Gallente one has a turret damage bonuses to increase its' dps. Current info thread. Seems a bit odd for Amarr, but they already gave the Minmatar the other missile destroyer.

I couldn't find the thread, but they said that they want to be sure of ship balance before introducing new skills so the skill split for destroyers would not be happening until sometime after the Winter Expansion and would be well announced and then the BC sometime after.

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So it seems Syndicate blew up this last week, any word on why?

Rote Kapelle decided that there were too many carebears in Syndicate so have declared that they will cleanse the area. Supposedly I-RED and Damned Nation have temporarily decided to suspend hostilities to focus on the RK advance.

But my problem is how they gave the Amarr destroyer more drone space and power than the Gallente destroyer. In fact, the Gallente destroyer doesn't look very competitive with the other destroyers. The Amarr destroyer also doesn't look like it has much for serious armor or firepower, relying on drones. That's not the typical Amarr doctrine.

Maybe they are trying to make a niche ship among the Amarr fleet, a one off thing. It just seems... wrong, to me.

Actually, they changed that up a bit (snipped to just the Amarr and Gallente ship info):

So in other words CCP has now pulled their dick out of FW's ass and now they are face fucking FW and wiping the dick on their chin? Taking away a good income maker to supplement your PVPing is just stupid. Might as well go back to null sec, at least you can restock your hangers after dying. Grinding missions is horrendous, but at least FW missions kept you on your toes and you had some fun, while also lining your pocket.

But whatever, at least I won EVE, I just like to gloat about my ex-wife getting bitch slapped once in a while.

So in other words CCP has now pulled their dick out of FW's ass and now they are face fucking FW and wiping the dick on their chin? Taking away a good income maker to supplement your PVPing is just stupid. Might as well go back to null sec, at least you can restock your hangers after dying. Grinding missions is horrendous, but at least FW missions kept you on your toes and you had some fun, while also lining your pocket.

But whatever, at least I won EVE, I just like to gloat about my ex-wife getting bitch slapped once in a while.

Some FW farmers were coining 45bil/month with zero PvP... Broken?

Edit: That Atron would have totally owned those two Sabres if it weren't for that darn Falcon

Doubt those were Hulk BPO's. Do not think anyone would transport three of them together in a untanked nothing ship. EVE Kill is websensed, but it would see this has no brain to move that much crap (isk wise) in a frig.

Doubt those were Hulk BPO's. Do not think anyone would transport three of them together in a untanked nothing ship. EVE Kill is websensed, but it would see this has no brain to move that much crap (isk wise) in a frig.